A 33-year-old man was found dead in a house at Carn Drive, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, yesterday morning. The RUC found him with fatal injuries in the living room at 8.30 a.m. A woman (37) was arrested and charged with murder. She will appear this morning at Belfast Magistrates' Court.
On Saturday night there was what police described as "a military-style attack" on a house in the largely loyalist Ballyduff area of Newtownabbey. A number of masked men armed with handguns burst into the house and demanded an individual. The men left as the only occupants were a babysitter and children. When a car occupied by seven people arrived later, the occupants were set upon by the gang.
According to the RUC, the group was then "viciously assaulted". Money and alcohol were stolen from the house and the masked men then set fire to a car. The attack was of a paramilitary nature but the RUC said it was also considering robbery as a motive.
Earlier on Saturday evening, stones were thrown at cars and buses returning from the Ulster rugby match as they passed Newry, Co Down. The town's bypass was closed for some time when a coach driver was detained in hospital with head injuries when he was struck by a stone thrown by local youths.
A man was arrested and another person was seriously injured and taken to hospital following an incident shortly after midnight last night outside a chip shop at Queen Street, Ballymena.
